Post #212592 by bungy on Sat, Feb 4, 2006 5:45 AM

Our home at the Cove: Our living room was upstairs and had a fireplace made from the stones on our beach.. These had to be picked carefully in order that they would have holes in them to keep the stones form "popping" with the heat.. It didn't work out very well, I can't remember how many times they would pop right out into the living room when guests were there! I wonder what they talked about on their ride home that night! The chimney was an old ship's funnel. I don't know how daddy put it on, but every once in a while, when we had guests sitting around the living room,the wind would shift, and start blowing right down that funnel. That would start blowing the smoke out into the room, and pretty soon, the guests eyes started watering and they started coughing! Mother never batted an eye. She actually never admitted to the smoke, but said, "Let's all go out to the beach and watch the full moon come up over the cliff. It is a wonderful sight!" So, all put on their coats and went on out to watch the moon, which really was a gorgeous sight to behold! meanwhile daddy, would say to one of us girls, "Quick!Go change the dang funnel!". So, off we'd go..out the back door, around the house which sat right up next to the cliff, scramble up the cliff, and over the ice plant, onto the roof, and crawled up the roof to the funnel. We'd put our arms around it, and tug and tug until it slid around far enough so the wind wouldn't come down into it, and then hurry back to help usher the guests back up to the livig room . When I was younger, I thought all chimneys worked like that! Hare Maru!! Auntie Bungy